17th April 1939

17th April 1939

Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Many thanks for your long letter and the Easter wishes. I am sorry I can’t return your wishes as it is late now. I had a very nice time staying with a cousin, Countess Therese Preysing. She, or rather her mother has a marvellous castle in Low-Bavaria. Somewhere between Regensburg and Parsau. I am again looking forward to a wedding. Muck and I are going to be bridesmaids. As we shall be wearing the same dresses as at Baby’s wedding, I shall ask Mami to let me have a new evening gown for the soiree. The wedding will be at Nymphenburg Palace, just like Deidi’s. The date is the 6th May. I seem to do nothing except attend weddings the whole year round. Muck and I went skiing up on the mountains near Garmisch-Partenkichen. It was a glorious day with the sun shining, or rather burning. I wish you could have seen us both, we looked like tomatoes. Muck’s nose is peeling off, mine not yet. Did I write to you that Polzer is back in the opera. I am looking forward to seeing him in “Tristan and Isolde”. I hope it is not to long. The last opera I saw was Eugene Onegin by Tchaikowsky, Das Herz by Pfitzner, Wildschutz by Lortzing. I didn’t like “Das Herz”. The music is simply awful. I am looking forward to see Rigaletto, The Girl Of The Golden West and Friedenstag. I saw the film “Kidnapped” and liked it very much.

Fondest love

Loll